Method for teasing hair



Dec. 19, 1967 A. L. RUXTON METHOD FOR TEASING HAIR Filed Nov. 25. 1964 Inventor A l EXAA/Dfk A. fiz/xro/v ByJM 1% Aflorne y United States Patent 3,358,696 METHOD FOR TEASING HAIR Alexander Littlejohn Ruxton, London, England (Mafeking House, 43 West Gate, North Berwick, Scotland) Filed Nov. 23, 1964, Ser. No. 413,136 1 Claim. (Cl. 132-7) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A method is provided for teasing hair, by use of an implement which comprises a pair of members pivotally interconnected and operable like scissors. One of the members has a V-shaped longitudinally extending groove and the other of the members has a V-shaped longitudinally extending wedge that mates with the groove. Preferably, one of the surfaces is coated with a soft material like chamois. Hair is teased by gripping a tress between the mating V-shaped surfaces, and drawing those surfaces lengthwise of the tress.

This invention relates to hair teasing and aims at providing a simple method whereby a users hair can readily be teased so as to be curled or waved.

According to the present invention there is used a device for curling or waving the hair which comprises two members having cooperating surfaces, the surface of one being in the form of a groove or channel and the surface of the other being of wedge-like section to fit into the groove or channel of the first mentioned surface. The hair is pressed or gripped between these two surfaces and drawn through between the surfaces, as the result of which operation the hair acquires a wave or curl. The groove is preferably formed of flat surfaces inclined to oen another at substantially 90 and the cooperating wedge-like surface is similarly preferably of substantially 90 wedge cross-section. The members may be the limbs of elements pivoted together for a scissors-like movement. One surface, e.g. the groove surface, may have fitted thereto a layer of soft material, e.g. a layer of chamois or similar leather.

The invention will be clearly understood from the following description of one form (given, however, merely by way of example) which it may assume, and this description will be more readily followed by reference to the accompanying drawings wherein FIGURE 1 represents in perspective a hair-curling or waving device for performing a method in accordance with the invention;

FIGURE 2 represents the device in side from the opposite side; and

FIGURE 3 represents a transverse section on plane A-A of FIGURE 2.

In carrying the invention into effect in one convenient manner, as shown in the aforesaid drawings, a hair-wav ing or curling device comprises a scissors assembly of two pivoted elements. One element comprises a member 1 integral with a handle 2, having a flat thumb rest 20 on its upper edge, and the other element comprises a member 3 integral with a finger-operable loop 4 from which may extend a finger trigger 4a. The elements are pivotally connected by a pin 5 so that a user may grip the handle 2 with a trigger-finger hold on the loop 4, 4a

elevation, seen whereby he or she can open and close the members 1 and 3 about the pin 5. In a modified form of the invention the pin 5 may be integral with a lug projecting downwards from the central portion of the member 2, extending through a hole in the central portion of the other member 3, being molded externally thereof to form a retaining head. In this case the head 5 of the pin seen in FIG- URE 2 would be absent.

The facing surfaces of the members 1 and 3 are formed to co-operate with one another. On member 1 the surface is formed as a V-sectioned groove of substantially angle, and to the groove surface is secured, e.g. by adhesive, a layer 6 of chamois leather, or similar material. The surface of the member 3 is formed as a substantially 90 V-shaped wedge 7 to close into the lining 6 of the groove of member 1.

The elements 1, 2 and 3, 4 are preferably pressure molded from a synthetic resin, e.g. nylon, and as illustrated may comprise thickened flanged edges, for strength, with comparatively thin web or panelling. The under edge of the handle 2 may be waved to facilitate gripping, as shown. The pin 5 may be of nylon or other synthetic resin.

In using the device described above an operator rests a tress of hair transversely of the groove of the member 1 and closes the member 3 down on it to press or lightly grip the hair against the lining 6. The hair is then drawn through between the members 1 and 3 held closed together, and it is found that the hair thereby becomes teased so as to be curled or waved.

From the above description it will be seen that the invention provides a simple and effective device whereby a users hair may be quickly waved or curled, but it should be understood that the invention is not limited solely to the details of the form described above, which may be modified in order to meet various conditions and requirements encountered, without departing from the scope of the invention.

What I claim is:

A method of teasing hair, comprising drawing a tress of hair transversely between one bar having a substantially V-shaped groove whose side walls meet at a sharp dihedral angle at the root of the groove and another bar having a substantially V-shaped wedge surface with the apex of said wedge surface disposed in the root of said groove and the side walls of said V-shaped wedge surface meeting at a sharp dihedral angle at the apex of the wedge, and pressing said bars together while drawing the tress of hair between them.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 459,146 9/1897 Nicol 132-37 589,397 8/1897 Rhodes .4 132-124 X 1,031,604 7/1912 Wilmot 132-32 1,847,401 3/1932 Klein 132-31 X 1,855,691 4/1932 Roberts 132-31 2,185,906 1/ 1940 Werner et al 132-31 3,182,667 5/1965 Den Beste 132-32;

FOREIGN PATENTS 341,736 7/1936 Italy.

L. W. TRAPP, Primary Examiner. 

